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 love into which he was born, as is the case with animals. To say that the animals are born into their knowledge and life is not to maintain that they are born with fully developed minds. Much is acquired through association and experience, for they are in free will on the natural plane, and their faculties are sharpened and quickened, yet this is not from rational development, but from association and the training of the instinct.

The animal, having neither the highest degree wherein love and wisdom are received immediately from the Creator nor the Internal Mind, which distinguish the human, is a fixed form incapable of rising above the purely animal. The acorn can develop into nothing but an oak, the animal can become only animal; but man, because of his form, may become an angel, an image and likeness of God.

The mind of the higher animals, being coincident in its degrees with the Natural Mind of man, displays knowledge, memory, and perception; and in the animal kingdom as a whole are found traces of all the natural emotions of man: yet, as in the operations of the animal mind cause and effect are not rationally comprehended and conjoined, they are purely instinctive.

The nature of the human mind is remarkably different. At birth man is animal, and only ani-